Petitioning the Tsar
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A Krasnodar Region police officer made headlines over the weekend when he posted an online video appealing to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to tackle endemic corruption, poor working conditions and abusive superiors in the police. Major Alexei Dymovsky was fired for ?libeling? his employers after his video went viral on the Russian Internet in just a few days. But none of what he has said, or the way in which he said it, is particularly new.
Source: Russia Profile.org